[Geomoose-users] first impressions

[Jonathan Moules]

Thanks for the prompt reply Jim.

It's good to see that more releases is something being considered. I like
the notion of "Release Early, Release Often" as a development methodology.
> Of course, since GeoMoose is open source, you are more than welcome to
submit a bug fix and if it is a big enough issue, we'd release a point
release for it (or wait and bundle a few fixes together).
I don't submit bug fixes myself typically but I'm very good at spotting
bugs which is why I like to check out a projects bugs list; it's also a
good way to seeing the health of a project. Not everyone's skills are best
used at programming (although I do actually know PHP, but obviously not
this code-base).

Jonathan



On 8 June 2012 15:03, Jim Klassen <klassen.js at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>  On Jun 8, 2012, at 6:12 AM, Jonathan Moules wrote:
>
>  Hi,
> I'm investigating Web-mapping frameworks for a project and came across
> GeoMoose which has a nice name and looks cool.
>
> Unfortunately I have some concerns:
>
> a) I can't for the life of me find a bug tracker. To graduate from the OGC
> you must have one somewhere but its very well hidden. Usually this is on
> the home page with a big "report bugs" button There's absolutely nothing on
> the wiki for bug reporting either..
>
>
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/geomoose
>
>  b) Looking at the web-page (geomoose.org), its clear that many parts of
> the web-site are out of date or simply not working. There's no obvious way
> to contact the project from there - it took several minutes of googling to
> find the subscription to this mailing list. This page -
> http://geomoose.org/info/mailing_lists.html - points to a 404. The wiki
> points to a different page -
> http://geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Mailing_Lists - that also is a 404. :-S
> A nice big obvious link somewhere on the home page should help get more
> people into the community.
>
>
> Agreed.  We are in a bit of a state of flux right now as we transition
> from 2.4 to 2.6 and I suspect most of the website updates are happening in
> the 2.6 right now.  This should be cleaned up at the end of next week when
> 2.6 is scheduled to be released.
>
> For now the most recent site is at:
> http://www.geomoose.org/trunk
>
>
> c) On a practical level, I'm concerned by the release schedule of
> GeoMOOSE; namely there don't seem to have been any point releases (aka, bug
> fixes) since 2.0.1. They're all major point releases which are about a
> year+ apart. That's a long time to wait for a bug-fix (I'm aware there are
> nightlies, but obviously you don't use them on production).
>
>
> Also agreed.  This has been addressed by the PSC and there will be a 2.4.1
> released about the same time as 2.6.   Also, 2.4 is more or less a point
> release to 2.2.  Of course, since GeoMoose is open source, you are more
> than welcome to submit a bug fix and if it is a big enough issue, we'd
> release a point release for it (or wait and bundle a few fixes together).
>
>
> There a lots of little things too, but as I don't want my first post to
> the mailing list to be too negative, I'll stop here. :-)
>
> Jonathan
>
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